Paul Simon (politician, 1908)
Paul Simon (born February 18, 1908 in Saarbrücken , † February 27, 1947 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the NSDAP .
Live and act
The son of a railway official and brother of Gustav Simon attended elementary school and secondary school , which he graduated from Trier in 1926 . In 1929 he worked as a civil servant candidate for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Türkismühle . Simon married in 1937.
In December 1926, Simon joined the NSDAP ( membership number 49.185). Simon's older brother Gustav was also a member of the NSDAP and in 1931 became Gauleiter of the Koblenz-Trier district. After complaints about his political activities, Simon was transferred to a sentence in April 1930 and left the Reichsbahn a month later. From June 1930 he was the full-time editor of the NSDAP daily newspaper Trierer Nationalblatt , an activity that earned him several prison terms and fines. Simon, who held the rank of Sturmführer in August 1930 in the Sturmabteilung (SA) , joined the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 9.504) in July 1931 , but left the SS in 1932 because dual activity was forbidden on the part of the Reichsführer-SS has been. In the same year, Simon became NSDAP district manager for the Bitburg , Daun and Prüm districts and district inspector for the Koblenz-Trier district administration for the Trier district .
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Simon acted as chief editor of the Nationalblatt in Koblenz and as head of the Gaupress. He was also a city councilor in Trier.
In February 1935, Simon moved to Gau Pomerania , where he became the chief editor of the Pommerschen Zeitung and the entire Pomeranian Gaupresse and was also appointed regional director of the Reich Association of the German Press (RDP). For the NSDAP, Simon appeared as a Gau speaker ; from October 1935 he was councilor according to the German municipal code in Stettin . In April 1937, Simon became district manager for the Greater Stettin district; from August 1937 he was deputy Gauleiter for Pomerania under Gauleiter Franz Schwede-Coburg . He rejoined the SS in January 1936 under his old membership number and, after several promotions, achieved the rank of Oberführer in April 1939 . From April 1938 until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945, Simon was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 6 (Pomerania) . In 1944, Simon is said to have attempted a "putsch" against Gauleiter Schwede-Coburg.
At the end of the war, Simon was picked up on the island of Rügen on May 5, 1945 , captured by the Red Army and transferred to the Fünfeichen internment camp near Neubrandenburg. He managed to escape to the British Zone, where he was arrested. When an extradition request was received from Poland, he took potassium cyanide on February 27, 1947.
literature
- Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 621 .
- Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-7758-1407-8 , pp. 448–450.
- Susanne Wiborg / Jan Peter Wiborg: Faith, Leader, Hope. The sinking of Clara S. , Munich 2015.
Web links
- Paul Simon in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Entry for Paul Simon in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ^ Lilla, extras , p. 621.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1947 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |